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But then later years if you had to go for the cows it was different because they always give them, ah, a nibble of hash when they brought them in or a meal of some kind and that brought the- they'd come when you call them.

You could say we four farmers go together, we'll buy this little mill and we do our own- took four men to run it and oh we'll do our own- do yours today and mine tomorrow and, ah, next week we'll make our flour for the year and, ah- same with feed for the- hash for the pigs and the- and the cattle and milking and the horses and anything.

Interviewer: Did they keep- ate scraps from the- the house as well? Speaker: Oh yes, you'd give them anything you had in the house. Not very much but always bran or hash or (inc) or something like that.

Interviewer: What did you feed chickens? Speaker: Well now, I just forget. We used to feed them a lot of scraps from the house- Interviewer: Mm-hm. Speaker: And um, uh, maybe a- a bit of oats and uh, loose oats and uh, I can't remember. Maybe um, a bit of my father's hash that he may be feeding the pigs.

Speaker: Never heard of pig-weed? Oh well, that's a thing- kind-of a long red roof- root on it. And it grows pretty fast here and there. They like that. They- n-- old fat hen, stuff-like-that. Interviewer: Uh-huh. Speaker: So it was always- ah, that saved buying too much grain or-that for hash for them. So we kept nice- Dad knew- really knew how to raise pigs, he always had select pigs.

And another time there was two guys came in and, ah, they said, "Do you sell hash?" I said, "Yes." "Ah, how- how- what the- how much?" And I said, "In a hundred pound bag." "And how much?" And I said, "Well, six-ninety-five." or-something. And they looked at each other. And I said, "You want pig feed, don't you?" And they kind of, "Well, we heard that there was drugs being sold out of the store." And I said, "Well, maybe you should check the other one."

Well, he would go to town. Um, now, when we had a car, mother would possibly go and uh, she would bring a bag of um, hash home from the griss-mill or my father would take uh, the horses and uh, and the wagon and bring a couple of bags home, of hash and then you would mix it with uh, skim milk at the barn. We always separated our milk. You would mix that with the skim milk and it made beautiful pork it was very tasty. Interviewer: Mm-hm. Was there a place to put the pigs food? Speaker: Yes, you always kept it in some corner pretty well covered by itself so that if a cow or-anything got loose or if one of the animals got loose, it would't get into the hash, they love hash.